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Soil mates : Tulips

From The Times, May 5, 2007

1 With forget-me-nots: Tulipa 'White Triumphator', Myosotis and Digitalis purpurea f. albiflora

 Precise massed rows of tulips, underplanted with forget-me-nots, is a late-spring classic often used in formal bedding schemes. Here, the same plants are used more informally — with the elegant outlines of white tulips appearing sparingly among a haze of frothy Myosotis.

 The bulky foliage of emerging foxgloves provides a solid backdrop against which to view the clean shape of the lily-flowered tulips, as well as offering welcome respite from the urge to count the hundreds of tiny blue flowers that make up the carpet of forget-me-nots. These white foxgloves will flower in June, continuing the vertical interest and colour contrast through the scheme as the tulips begin to fade.

Soil Mates: Tulips
Tulips planted informally in a meadow
Tulips with euphorbia
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Garden designer, plant expert and gardening writer Alice Bowe writes a regular planting design column for the Times

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